By turns ponderous, cartoonish, and weird. The dialogue is comically bad. The imagery, full of dense metaphors and similes, are sometimes gorgeous, sometimes laughable (one character has "rabbit-like lips," whatever that means...a lot of fun zoomorphic imagery). Worth it for the hallucinatory sequences in which the miracles occur, some of which approach magical realism. The novel becomes more and more preoccupied with its existential themes as it approaches the Last Temptation, which gets a little tiring. Glad I read it, glad I'm done with it.